Hello, just a quick note to mention that I have a number of speaking engagements coming up: London Graph Connect 19th Nov – where I will be talking about our use of Neo4j with my colleague Toby O’Rouke F# in Finance (London) 25th Nov – where I will be tal[...]

So I love it when a very natural use case arises for a feature that I want to practice.  I’ve been trying to better my understanding of active patterns lately and today I found a great use for them. I’m fetching json data from a REST endpoint.  Of course [...]

So far our (1) level is fairly painful code to look at – admittedly SpriteKit and F# take something that could have been horrific and simply make it tedious. Today we change that. DSL According to Wikipedia a DSL is … Continue reading →

The cf.Objective() 2014 Call for Speakers is open until November 1st so you have just under two weeks to submit your topics. You can also vote for existing topic submission at that same link. Right now we've only had two general CFML topics submitted (and[...]

Welcome to F# Weekly, A roundup of F# content from this past week: News Visual Studio 2013 was released. If you are interested in getting involved in the F# community please visit FSSF page and add your name to the members list. Dmitry Morozov presented S[...]

.Net was Microsoft’s answer to Java. Java promised a single language that could target multiple platforms. .Net offered multiple languages that targeted Windows. Back then that meant C#, VB.Net and C++/CLI, Virtual Machines Things have moved on for bot[...]

I’ve done some small tests while writing the library to handle readonly objects in C#. Turns out that getting the value of a sub expression can be costly (since you have to compile the expression and execute). When just setting one property there can be a[...]